Episode Two: Really Red

In which someone gets angry. Featuring: anger, expectation, a word on the tip of your tongue, and a devious reflection.

Episode description: Anna recounts a dream (or is it a nightmare?), goes on a midnight expedition, and continues trying to get in touch with Mabel Martin.

Episode Overview
Anna talks about her anger towards Mabel and then resolves to open one of the letters from the previous episode.

Trigger Warnings

 * Depersonalization, derealization, animal death, illness, loud sounds.



Episode Summary
Anna calls Mabel several times throughout a day at her job, telling her she is now sure Mabel is listening because the voicemail box has been emptied. Anna talks about her issues with depersonalization due to being removed from society in the hills. She also talks about how she occasionally gets very, very angry about very small things. Today, she had found a dead baby crow outside the door, and proceeded to get very upset about the state of things; largely, almost focally, about the fact that Mabel isn't there, in the house. She tells Mabel about Sally's current issues, then tells Mabel about the dream she had, where she met a girl with a very red mouth who mouthed something at her, three syllables long. She then calls Mabel later that night and goes to try to open a letter. Just as she's about to, Sally screams and falls in the floor above Anna, and Anna hangs up to go get her.

Continuity
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 * Anna says in this that she knows Sally and Mabel had "a fight"; it's later revealed that Sally abused Mabel heavily. After Anna learns this, she says that she's glad Sally died completely alone.
 * Anna says she can see someone outside the house. This, of course, is Thomas.
 * The word that the dream-girl mouthed at Anna was "datura."



Trivia
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 * Anna says she used to be scared of the dark.
 * Sally has Parkinson's disease.